Guardian Angels South Africa

Mini Angels

Mini Angels is a new concept that is still under construction. This program entails training toddlers from the age of 3-6 years in basic safety skills, such as not getting into stranger's cars, not going to places where mommy does not know where you are, not all brightly coloured pills are edible and that while it is ok for others to touch some parts of your body, it is NOT ok for them to touch other parts. The program also entails age-appropriate life-skills training.

For more details on this program please email:

zenangel1@gmail.com

Or call Eldorette on:

073 516 8891

Junior Angels

Junior Angels are volunteer Guardian Angels between 7 and 11 years old. They are taught principles and compassion and given guidelines to use against bullying. Junior Guardian Angels is an early prevention program that strives to interrupt today’s prevalent violence mentality by teaching important values and instilling a sense of purpose that youngsters may not receive at home. With so much peer pressure to choose violence as a means of resolving disputes; this program exerts a strong, positive influence on the children’s societal development. It teaches them how to make “correct” choices, and helps them to recognize they have talents and interests that are of value.

Urban Angels

Urban Angels are volunteer Guardian Angels between 12 and 15 years old, too young to patrol, but old enough to make a difference. They are taught community responsibility and help clean streets and remove graffiti on a daily basis. They are also encouraged to remain in school and not skip classes through an innovative system of interaction between patrol leaders and teachers. The mission of this life skills program is to give teens an alternative to gangs, drugs and violence through a supportive club environment that inspires compassion, personal responsibility, a desire to learn and a dedication to volunteer community service. Participants learn self-reliance, leadership skills and the benefits of civic service, while developing a sense of belonging to a vibrant, constructive community.

Earth Angels

Earth Angels are those volunteer Guardian Angels who have a special love for or skills with animals, nature and the environment and devote their time to compassionately helping those in need of help with their animals, building and maintaining community food gardens, patrolling nature reserves and facilities like municipal swimming pools while also helping to protect our natural resources. They actively combat threats to the natural environment, such as global warming.

Park Angels

Park Angels are those volunteers who, due to age or infirmity, cannot patrol, but would still like to contribute. They spend their available time on walks in local parks, being in radio communication with the police. They only observe and report crime, they do not directly intervene.

24/7 Guardian Angels

24/7’s are those special volunteer Guardian Angels who are able to spend all their time as a patrol angel due to being temporarily unemployed etc. They receive a small allowance, live at a Guardian Angel facility and are on call 24/7.

Cyber Angels

Cyber Angels are those volunteer Guardian Angels with specialized skills who patrol the Internet, searching for hackers, child pornography, internet fraud and scams and continuously feed this information to the authorities for investigation. Sole recipient of the 1998 Points of Light Presidential Service Award, the Cyber Guardian Angels was founded in 1995 as the first cyber-neighbourhood watch and is now the largest in online safety education. Cyber Angels addresses the concerns of parents, the needs of children, on-line abuse and cyber crime, while supporting the right of free speech.

IT professionals and law enforcement officers from around the world work together to combat Internet crime, and due to a close working relationship with law enforcement agencies, the Cyber Guardian Angels have been instrumental in putting child pornographers and predators behind bars, where they belong.

Teachers, librarians and parents work together to teach children and teens how to take advantage of the Internet’s vast resources safely, and provide online classes on many topics concerning Internet issues for the general public.

More information is available here.

Angels In The Classroom

Angels In The Classroom are those volunteer Guardian Angels who teach teachers how to regain control in their classes over riotous and disruptive pupils. ‘Verbal Judo’ is the basis of this training and it leads directly to a safer school environment. This program is so successful that teachers in New York now have to, by law, complete this course which is presented by GA in conjunction with St John’s University.

Safety Patrol Angels

Safety Patrol Angels are volunteer Guardian Angels above 16 years old. They conduct unarmed patrols as highly visual deterrents to crime. In the course of a nightly patrol they break up fights, perform arrests if needed, render first aid to injured people, direct tourists to a good coffee bar or safe place to dance, deter car thieves with their presence and dispense crime prevention tips.

School Safety Program

Our School Safety Program is built on 6 steps that will help change the safety profile in your school dramatically.

Our program starts off by putting some de-stress alternatives in place in a school. This usually reduces the violence levels in any school, among the pupils, dramatically within hours!

In the second step we establish a School Watch. Based loosely on a Neighbourhood Watch structure, this pupil-driven part of the program teaches those youngsters who volunteer for it to become a patrolling school watch during school hours and to report all instances of bullying, drugs and gangs to the school governing body.

Step 3 is to launch and register a Junior Community Police Forum (JCPF) in the school. This body, staffed by pupils, report to both the school board as well as the local CPF where the broader community also hears about crime-related problems in the school.

Step 4 is the Teacher Program, which can be tailor-made for the school, depending on the levels of violence in the school. Some schools teachers just need some verbal skills and in others they will need the whole spectrum of our training.

In the second to last step we now get the parents involved in programs such as a 'walking school bus' and to assist before and after school. Parents are also invited to participate in the decision-making process of the schools safety programs.

The last step is the Bullyproofing of your kids. During this step kids are taught to avoid bullies, how to help their friends if they are bullied and how to ask for help. We also try to extract the bully from his negative spiral.

Skills, craft and job creation

Our aim for the SKILLS, CRAFT AND JOB CREATION project is to empower the people of South Africa in various areas to be able to enter the ranks of earning individuals, we aim to do this by providing them with skills such as computer training, telephone manners, office skills. In addition to this we offer craft workshops such as fabric painting, sewing, scrapbooking, to mention a few, for those who would prefer to do something creative. Guardian Angels will provide assistance to all those trained to help secure jobs or to start their own enterprise, by giving people an income we alleviate crime to a large extent.

The National Coordinator is Shirleen Rowe, whom you can email here or visit their site here.